Prof. Elena Korznikova holds a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. She is the Head of the youth laboratory “Metals and Alloys under Extreme Impacts” of the Eurasian REC; winner of the competitions of the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists and for state support of leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation; Head of the Department of scientific Publications of UGATU; and leading researcher at the Institute of Problems of Superplasticity of Metals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the field of experimental and computer materials science, with an emphasis on nanomaterials and new two-dimensional materials. She actively participates in studies of the influence of extreme impacts on the structure and properties of materials. She shows a number of non-trivial phenomena associated with finding a material in a state far from equilibrium, such as the formation of non-equilibrium solid solutions from immiscible components, changes in the elastic properties of materials against the background of the implementation of high-amplitude vibrations of atoms according to certain patterns, the occurrence of energy localizations in the form of discrete breathers, etc.